Gen Nakatani
Gen Nakatani | |
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中谷 元 | |
Minister of Defense | |
In office 24 December 2014 – 3 August 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe |
Preceded by | Akinori Eto |
Succeeded by | Tomomi Inada |
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency | |
In office 4 April 2001 – 30 September 2002 | |
Prime Minister | Yoshirō Mori Junichirō Koizumi |
Preceded by | Toshitsugu Saito |
Succeeded by | Shigeru Ishiba |
Member of the House of Representatives for the | |
Assumed office 14 December 2014 | |
Preceded by | Teru Fukui |
Member of the House of Representatives for the | |
In office 20 October 1996 – 21 November 2014 | |
Preceded by | New district |
Succeeded by | Yuji Yamamoto |
Member of the House of Representatives for the | |
In office 19 February 1990 – 27 September 1996 Serving with Noritoshi Ishida, , Yuji Yamamoto , | |
Preceded by | , , , |
Succeeded by | District abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Kōchi | 14 October 1957
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
Alma mater | National Defense Academy |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Japan |
Branch/service | Japan Ground Self-Defense Force |
Years of service | 1980–1984 |
Rank | First Lieutenant |
Gen Nakatani (中谷 元, Nakatani Gen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed as the Minister of Defense by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014.[1][2]
Nakatani was born in Kōchi and attended the National Defense Academy of Japan. He served for four years as a commissioned officer in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (20th Infantry Regiment and Airborne Training Unit).
He first ran for elected office as a Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the 1990 general election and won one of five seats representing Kōchi Prefecture, and held this seat in the 1993 general election. Following electoral reform in 1994 that divided Kōchi into three single-member districts, he successfully contested the in the 1996 general election and held this seat until the 2014 general election, when he switched to the ; the abolishment of the required the Liberal Democratic Party's Kōchi members to switch seats so that they could all remain in office. Yuji Yamamoto, who had held the 3rd district since 1996, switched to the 2nd district. Meanwhile Teru Fukui, who had held the 1st district since 1996, switched to the Shikoku proportional representation block.
Nakatani supported Koichi Kato and Taku Yamasaki's no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in 2000, and was appointed to head the Japan Defense Agency under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the following year.
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- ^ Ko Shu-ling; J. Michael Cole (6 October 2010). "Security experts warn on China threat". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ Sachiko Sakamaki; Takashi Hirokawa (26 May 2009). "Japan Should Consider Pre-emptive Strikes, LDP Lawmaker Says". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1957 births
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel
- Japanese defense ministers
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Living people
- Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
- National Defense Academy of Japan alumni
- 21st-century Japanese politicians
- People from Kōchi, Kōchi
- Japanese politician, 1950s birth stubs